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Racy Danish Tabloid May Sue Apple For App Rejection

Posted by timothy on from the bikinis-verboten dept.

the_arrow writes "In Denmark the tabloid newspaper Ekstra Bladet usually have scantily clad ladies on page 9. When making an iPad application, Apple of course rejected it because of that. However, Ekstra Bladet is not happy with that, and many sites report that Ekstra Bladet is thinking about taking Apple to European court for 'unfair censorship and anti-competitive behaviour.'"

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  1. Porn. by MokuMokuRyoushi · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's no app for that.

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    1. Re:Porn. by fyngyrz · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No, you just have to open Safari, which comes with every iPad -- it's the perfect porn delivery system, and Apple provides it for free. In, fact, I'd go so far as to say that if you can't find porn using Safari, you're too stupid to reliably remember to draw your next breath.

      As to Apple's unwillingness to put porn in the app store itself, that's simply distasteful -- Jobs imposing his limited, socially crippled idea of what an app store should be... on his (Apple's) app store. He's not preventing any content from reaching you -- any content you imagine can be put on a web site, and Safari will deliver it (and very well, too.) He's just pretending to be socially acceptable to the mentally challenged, that's all.

      All Ekstra Bladet has to do to get those "racy" chicks to you is pop them on a web site; google will find them in about five minutes, and you can find them a second later. So in no way are you stymied, nor is Ekstra Bladet.

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  2. Re:I would like to verify the legitimacy myself by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sorry your having so much difficulty with your search engine. Google even helpfully points to ""Side 9" (Not really SFW, natch).

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  3. It's a good point by ciaran_o_riordan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Back in the days of printed stuff, there were thousands of outlets. If one barred a certain publication, it was no big deal. The public could buy it in the other shop down the road.

    With e-publishing, there's massive consolidation that changes this situation. Amazon or Apple blocking a publication is *not* analogous to a shop choosing not to stock a publication.

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  4. Re:Please. by igreaterthanu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously, why is this shit on Slashdot?

    What would Slashdot be without the occasional bashing of each and every big software company? That's like half of the reason to be here!

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  5. Re:Suing for what exactly? by Warwick+Allison · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From TFA: for allowing other iPad apps (lists "German paper Bild and British The Sun") to do what they have been prevented from. Duh.

  6. Re:Please. by brucmack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What? This is about Apple potentially having their App Store policies tried in European court, something that could potentially be a game-changer. But no, it must be a slashvertisement targeted at the millions of Danish Slashdot readers...

  7. Re:Suing for what exactly? by Carewolf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are you familiar with the legislation regarding censorship in Denmark? It may be like "sexual assault" in Sweden.

    You are not completely off. We just don't make it into laws in Denmark, but when US TV shows started being shown on Danish TV, worried parents called in and complained because of the beeps over offensive words. They argued that censorship is wrong and harmfull to children.

    Then again. The racist party recently suggested in parliament that we should add topless girls to the citizenship test, apparently thinking that would scare off muslims.